Trying to explain / make sense of / the “download tarball” menu. The documentation explains how to npm install notebook.tgz but the rest is left as a (slightly cryptic) exercise for the reader. (The demos listed are all using the js module with online URLs.) yarn add "https://api.observablehq.com/…

Hi @Fil . After @bgchen revealed the magic of the tarball to me on this forum, I have found at least one practical use case for tarballs: Controlling View Permissions and Excerpting Sections of Long, Unwieldy Notebooks I have one central notebook that describes a ‘case’ received by my office by wa…

My use case: I wrote a tool for a work project and linked to it in a JIRA issue. Additionally I created a tarball export and attached it to the issue to ensure that the tool could always be accessed. To run the notebook locally I would simply start a web server (as described in the included readme)…

Interesting! So in both cases it’s more “plain js” than complex node.js projects where a part of the code would have been developed on observable (as a library for example).

Certainly for me, at least. Probably b/c I am not (yet) so advanced as to be building libraries. Maybe consider reaching out to some users who have been publishing libraries? What to me is most interestig about the tarballs is their ready abstaction from the observablehq context. Otherwise, why not…

The Idyll project has an experimental plugin for inserting cells from a notebook into a text document so that presumably you’d develop a visualization in Observable and then insert it into an article directly without having to actually extract it and work the js into your document. Conversely, you c…

Importing notebooks as tarball dependencies with npm is discussed here: [image] Package integrity and yarn.lock/package-lock.json Site Feedback Hi, I’m embedding a notebook ( Tissot’s indicatrix ) as a dependency of my project. My package.json file contains: "dependencie…

This question has evolved into the following blog post, which details our methodology to transform a mildly complex @observablehq notebook into a fully self-contained standalone application: https://projet.liris.cnrs.fr/mi2/posts/2019/09/11/observable-to-standalone.html The method is explained in …

One common problem when hosting the downloaded tgz package uncompressed to a folder and using simplehttp or ias or other out of the box solutions is: file attachments have no extension and will not be served with correct mime type or often not served at all depending on the default configuration of …

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